The NSVRC's Mapping Prevention video podcast series highlights unique state and community approaches to the prevention of sexual violence.

Mapping Prevention: Incorporating Healthy Sexuality

(4:16 min) This video podcast features a conversation with Alison Bellavance, Director of Education and Training at Planned Parenthood of Northeast and Mid-Penn in Pennsylvania, about incorporating healthy sexuality approaches into sexual violence prevention work.

(13:02 min) This video podcast features a conversation with Dustina Hasse-Lanier and Jessica Gilbertson of the Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence about consent and prevention work in LGBTQI communities.

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Mapping Prevention: Virginia's YES Campaign

(5:57 min) This video podcast features a conversation with Jonathan Yglesias, Sexual Violence Prevention Coordinator for the Virginia Sexual & Domestic Violence Action Alliance about the state's YES Campaign and their vision for branding prevention.Transcript.

Mapping Prevention: Branding Prevention

(8:58 min) In this video podcast we talk with Ashley Maier, former Prevention Program Coordinator with the Oregon Attorney General's Sexual Assault Task Force, about the concept of branding prevention as well as successful social branding strategies.Transcript.

Mapping Prevention: Engaging Fathers

(13:37 min) In this video podcast we talk with Craig Norberg-Bohm, Coordinator of the Men's Initiative for Jane Doe, Inc. in Massachusetts, about the Responsible Fatherhood program and why engaging men (and fathers in particular) is integral to ending sexual violence.Transcript.

This series highlights innovative sexual assault programs and success stories from rural communities across the United States.

Teen Mentoring and Peer Support Program

(8:40 min) Ms. Barbara Booth, a staff member of the Community Student Learning Center in Lexington, Mississippi, a Rural Grantee agency of the Office on Violence Against Women is highlighted in this video podcast. The Community Student Learning Center is implementing a mentoring and peer support program to end intimate partner sexual violence among teens. Here Ms. Booth describes some key aspects of the student peer support project. Transcript[16]

Sexual Assault Response Team Development

(12:38 min) This video podcast is an interview with Ms. Elizabeth Nieves is the Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) Coordinator for Family Violence and Rape Crisis Services of Pittsboro, North Carolina. Family Violence and Rape Crisis Services is a Rural Grantee agency of the Office on Violence Against Women. In this interview, Ms. Nieves discusses her efforts to organize a SART by reaching out to local partners, including law enforcement leadership. Transcript[17]

Law Enforcement as Community Mentors to Youth

(7:33 min) John Haynes is Chief Investigator of the City of Durant Police Department in Durant, Mississippi. This video podcast highlights Investigator Haynes as a community partner of the Community Student Learning Center in Lexington, Mississippi, a Rural Grantee of the Office on Violence Against Women. The Community Student Learning Center is implementing a mentoring and peer support program to end intimate partner sexual violence among teens. Here Mr. Haynes discusses his experiences as a community mentor and how it has informed his work as a police officer. Transcript[18]

Strategies for Prosecuting Sexual Assault Cases

(11:39 min) This video podcast is an interview with Mr. Thomas Nolan is Special Projects Staff Attorney with the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault in St. Paul, Minnesota. He develops educational resources on sexual assault for judges and court officials. Mr. Nolan has extensive experience in prosecuting sexual assault cases in rural areas. Here, he discusses his strategies for the prosecution of sexual assault cases, focusing on the theme and the story of the case. Transcript[19]

This series is a collaborative project between VAWnet, the National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women and the National Sexual Violence Resource Center and focuses on building the work of VAWnet’s Applied Research Papers[23].